Danica Roem will become the first transgender state legislator after soundly defeating her opponent, religious conservative Bob Marshall. Marshall referred to himself as Virginia’s “chief homophobe.”

Roem handily outraised her opponent and as the Washington Post reports, her campaign “executed an aggressive ground game, knocking on doors more than 75,000 times in a district with 52,471 registered voters, sitting for endless public appearances and interviews, and maintaining a steady social media presence.”

Marshall was aggressively transphobic in his campaign, including refusing to debate Roem and consistently referring to her with the wrong pronoun. He was the sponsor of Virginia’s bathroom bill that would have discriminated against transgender people.